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- ↑ Virgil Aeneid 4.198.
- ↑ Virgil Aeneid 4.213-4.
- ↑ "Book IV". www.cliffsnotes.com. Retrieved 2017-08-04.
- ↑ Ovid Heroides 7.125.
- ↑ Ovid Fasti 3.551-4.
- 1 2 Martin T. Dinter, "Epitaphic Gestures in Statius and Silius Italicus", in Antony Augoustakis (ed.), Ritual and Religion in Flavian Epic (Oxford University Press, ), pp. 267–286, at 277.
- ↑ David J. Mattingly (1995), Tripolitania, B. T. Batsford, p. 56.
- ↑ Alison M. Keith, "Engendering Orientalism in Silius' Pvnica", in Antony Agoustakis (ed.), Brill's Companion to Silius Italicus (Brill, 2010), pp. 353–373, at 367.
- ↑ Dante Purgatorio 31.72.
- ↑ "Dido, Queen of Carthage | play by Marlowe and Nashe". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2017-08-04.